Re: [Amc-list] Battery good - no lights, no horn, no gauges, starter doesn't spin - completely dead electric

[Greg Taylor <amundaza@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Bruce,
Glad to hear you making headway and getting 'charge' out of figuring where the electrical gremlins reside.

Sincerely, 
Greg Taylor :) <>< 
Rochester Hills, MI
1989 Jeep Grand Wagoneer "TRMN8R2"

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--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Battery good - no lights, no horn, no gauges, starter doesn't spin - completely dead electric
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 5:03 PM

I had already replaced the negative battery cable. I replaced the
positive battery cable today, and it started right up. I popped it
off, cleaned the contact area on the starter, put on a new cable - and
it's good.

The ground cable is in really bad shape - and now worse since I tried
to get it loose to replace it. I'll hit the bolts with penetrating oil
and try it again later. It has to go.

Wow - all that fuss and manual reading and electrical diagram reading
- when it was a battery cable.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone. It helped. I picked up a
voltmeter and will start messing around with it. Voltmeter! Cool! And
a timing light. Cool! And older vacuum gauges. Time to work on making
it run right!

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> YOu need a voltmeter, even a cheap one will do. Cheap ones are at least
> 5% accurate, that's more than enough. You're looking for changes,
not
> precision.
>
> If you got 12V at the battery posts, say, then check
"downstream" step
> by step. Assume nothing!
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